Re: IFS authorities

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I see you haven't yet received an answer.  I am also a student 
of IFS authority, but the following is what I have pieced 
together based on what the UNIX API manual says.

Depending on the file system you will need authority to the parent 
directory.  For non-QDLS files you will need *WX to the parent, 
and *X authority to all directories in the path.  You also need 
*OBJEXIST authority to the file being deleted.

For QDLS, you need *X to all directories in the path including the 
parent and *X and *OBJEXIST to the file being deleted.

David Morris

>>> John Earl <johnearl@toolnet.com> 04/08/99 01:43PM >>>
I'm having a little trouble with IFS authorities, and can't
quite find the source of the problem.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

I'm looking at providing a programmer profile (*JOBCTL only)
with idividual authority to copy something out of an IFS
directory and I'm having a devil of a time with (I think)
the target authority.

The specifics:  User profile JOHN is trying to copy a
"Hello.java" from
"/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/com/ibm/as400/system" into directory
"/john"  that user profile JOHN created and has ownership
authority over.  Message CPFA09C is issued saying '
Authority is not sufficient to access object *N.'   Any
idea's on how I find out what *N is?

I'm guessing that there must be a rule about authority
needed to the parent directory structure, I just can't put
my finger on it.

jte

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